x.comhttps://x.com/evclinic/status/1851709644097380361If you drive a STELLANTIS vehicle, may God help you! PART 1
It’s time to summarize: They are totally unsustainable groupation producing junk, along with their suppliers. The level of ridiculous engineering in these vehicles borders on madness, and it’s time to confront the garbage, face to face, in this series of posts. We already know the kind of trash this group produces on wheels in diesel, gasoline, and hybrid variants, but what they're doing with EVs is unforgivable. It seems to us they don’t want you to be satisfied owners, especially not with EVs. The product seems designed with a message like, “I told you to buy a diesel with a DPF so we could shovel money out of you.” We’ve encountered a series of problems with them, from AFTERMARKET "right to repair" access for independent repair shops (schematics, software, updates, parts) to special tools and documentation. Support is non-responsive. Nothing is accessible, blatantly violating EU Regulation 2018/858, Article 61. For weeks now, we haven’t received approval for access to FIAT and Citroen accounts. While Tesla granted this access within a day, with Stellantis, we’d have to scrap 50 cars before anything is resolved.
The problem in the other 50 shades of gray is that even OEM service centers are slaves to this group. Their tech lack adequate training, can’t locate faults, don’t have sufficient hotline support from the manufacturer, and blindly replace components at the owner's expense. The third layer of problems is that the manufacturer doesn’t have the parts available to fix the vehicle, causing delays of 2-6 months, with especially heavy losses for entrepreneurs left without a replacement vehicle under warranty. The last and most painful layer is the usurious warranty policies, where the general vehicle warranty is tied to the drive warranty. If you miss a wiper replacement according to the service book, you automatically lose the battery warranty, even in critical recalls where they refuse to replace the part.
Here I have images of 3 cases of catastrophically and irreparably designed MAHLE OBC and DCDC units integrated into a single module, where 8 PCB boards complicate the system to unprecedented proportions. The last IGBT board is glued with hard epoxy to the coolant plate, along with the DCDC inverter. Almost every board has its microcontroller. In 2 samples, there’s no measurable damage, but the Type 2 charging doesn’t work. One sample burnt the wire from the inductor to the IGBT output. We couldn’t repair a single one in 3 attempts. For the second part, we’ve been waiting 6 months, and this factory fault is neither covered by warranty nor a recall, meaning owners truly become victims with no choice but to buy a vehicle from another manufacturer, or they’ll be driven to bankruptcy. Neither we nor the authorized service center can fix this defect. This part is found in all Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, Toyota, DS vehicles and this is only one of many issues.
Partnumber: H-20679-01, 03196727, MAHLE
Error: Type2 doesnt charge
OEM : 2200€ (6 months waiting time)
EVC: -